by pixelMIGHT | Aug 19, 2015
Are Cancer Patients Offered Enough Lifelines? Over the past few years, I have received a number of calls from patients around the country seeking personalised cancer care. Many of these individuals are looking for molecular profiles of their tumors, chemosensitivity...
by pixelMIGHT | Jul 28, 2015
In the May 13th, 2014 edition of Propublica.org is an interesting article titled ” MIA in the War on Cancer : Where are the Low Cost Treatments? ” ( By Jake Bernstein ) It features a cancer survivor named Michael Retsky who was diagnosed with advanced GI...
by pixelMIGHT | Jul 13, 2015
It was late June of 2009, and I was on the brink. Over the previous few months I had collapsed a number of times and had to be transferred to various emergency rooms. Often I was short of breath, dizzy and swelling up like a balloon. Furthermore, many of my lab values...
by pixelMIGHT | Jun 27, 2015
It’s evident that there is a wide chasm-even a disconnect-between cancer research and clinical oncology. Groundbreaking discoveries are made regularly , but most patients and even some oncologists are not aware of them. Moving slower than a turtle, and sometimes...
by pixelMIGHT | May 27, 2015
In late Mark of 2003, I was lying in a large, cavernous chemo room in Michigan. As 10 million units of interferon coursed into me, I could feel myself going into the abyss. Even though I was in this dream state, I can remember my oncologist whispering in my ear,...
by pixelMIGHT | Mar 31, 2015
I recall my initial introduction to cancer, the “emperor of all maladies,” (2) when I was 21 years old. It was 1976, and I had just completed my Bachelor of Science degree at Central Michigan University. I was working as an orderly in the emergency room at Ingham...
